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Did you know that Jack White....
Did you know that Jack White....
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isaacullah
772 posts
Feb 28, 2010
11:30 AM
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....had a guitar custom-made for him with a vintage Shure Green Bullet built in to it? It even has a retractable cord! How did I learn this? Well, I just watched the documentary called "It Might Get Loud" where Jack, The Edge, and Jimmy Page all get together to discuss and play guitar. You get each of their stories about how they started and what influences them and what they want to do with music. It's fascinating stuff! There is HEAVY Blues content. I highly recommend watching it.
Even though it is ostensibly about "guitar", the main content is really just music and musicality. There is a lot to learn in there. About simplicity, musical adversity, inspiration, effects, acoustics, song writing, music history, etc... It's VERY worthwhile...
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harmonicanick
633 posts
Feb 28, 2010
11:39 AM
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do you have a link or web address for us please Isaacullha?
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isaacullah
773 posts
Feb 28, 2010
12:33 PM
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Just google it! "It Might Get Loud" is the name of the movie. I rented it as a DVD. You can get it from netflix...
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cm16600
104 posts
Feb 28, 2010
12:43 PM
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watched 2 weeks agao it is a must see !
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Honkin On Bobo
211 posts
Mar 01, 2010
9:41 AM
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I will second (or third or fourth) that this is a great film. The highest compliment I can pay it is that, I don't like U2 or the Edge, and prior to viewing the flick really didn't care for Jack White, and I still loved this movie.
Saw it in the theater with my GF, then rented it and brought it to my guitar playing friend's house and watched it again with him and his wife and my GF. Then before returning it watched it by myself on a Sunday morning with a pot of coffee.
The highlights for me:
1.)Learned WHY I don't care for The Edge (great scene in which he shows that he's all about the effects..plays this simple rather boring riff with no effects then with them...whereas I'm all about the groove, the soul, the funk, ie. effects can be useful and cool..but don't make it all about the effects).
2.) I've got a new found respect for Jack White and i'm gonna start listening to some of his stuff. Particularly loved the part where he said growing up in urban Detroit in the 80's, it was actually UNCOOL to be able to play an instrument. It was all rapping, hip/hop, scratching etc.
3.) watching them rehearse for a group acoustic cover of The Weight, wherein Page just looks at white and the edge and says (with a smile) "I can't do it, I can't sing"
4.) Page, in his study, whipping out a copy of Link Wray and the Raymen's Rumble, and just diggin it (note: YT has a clip of this scene from the movie)
All in all this movie was 5 star to me.
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isaacullah
775 posts
Mar 01, 2010
12:30 PM
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Honkin On, That's funny, I felt the exact opposite about that seen with The Edge. For me, that showed his genius. He's really mastered the use of effects, and I think his main break though was discovering that when you are going to use a lot of effects, you have to play simpler. The effects become part of the instrument, in a sense, and your playing style has to change to make best use of them. I think it was Richard Hunter who said somewhere that when you play a heavily electric rig, you are no longer just playing "harmonica". Instead you are playing a huge electronic instrument that happens to have a harmonica as it's controller. I think the Edge figured that out with guitar.
But Ditto about Jack White. He is BADASS!
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6SN7
35 posts
Mar 01, 2010
3:18 PM
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First time I saw jack White was on one of those crummy grammies or american music awards shows with all that shit music. well, he comes out with his drummer sista, and proceeds to start playing Son House, SON HOUSE on national effing prime time! I am convinced half of America were frightened and turned it off and the other half were mesmerized by his performance.
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